The girls are ready for work!  Betsy and Laureen inspect a Montana coal mine and tools.
  "Borrowing" soil near Atlantic, IA and resting atop the pile: Betsy, Alex, and Kevin.
 

Kevin is the king of this particular load of dirt.

Mohamed and Alex turn the soil for drying.

  Kevin's rainfall simulation on manure-applied lysimeters
  How many ag engineers does is take to pump a lysimeter?  5: one to hold the hose, one to hold the plug, one to hold the other hose, one to hold the clipboard, and me to document the whole thing on film.
  Lunch break!  Betsy and Peter share a pepper while Dr. Baker plots his next move.
 

Betsy at home in a mobile water sample prep lab.

Tom solving the world's thermodynamic problems.

Eric and Betsy study the social effects of cramped working conditions  (Northern WY)

Protecting elk from research equipment - fencing below zero.

  Waiting for runoff from rainfall simulation plots, why does everybody give me bunnyears?
 

Andy voids the warranty on the chainsaw.

Betsy packs a pan lysimeter.

The profile draining to these lysimeters is undisturbed.

Lysimeter installation at experimental station near Lancaster, WI.

Outdoor laptop computer use: downloading Zortman weather station and examining data.
 

The leach heap complete  with cyanide sprinklers            Mill Gulch Waste Rock Repository            Neutron probe  calibration pit      The capping system consists of "cover soil" (pink), oxidized waste rock (white), and shale (black).  A 300 foot thick seam of orange waste rock lies below.  This acid-producing material was the focus of my master's thesis.

Construction of the drainage system on Mill Gulch  waste rock repository.

Neutron probe calibration failure #3: The reason I developed the laboratory neutron probe calibration method below.
  Neutron probe calibration barrel equipped with time domain reflectometry probes, high-tech moisture content control system (bets+bucket), and Mill Gulch waste rock.

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